{"id":72965,"date":"2017-06-22T11:59:08","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T15:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72965"},"modified":"2017-06-22T14:22:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T18:22:08","slug":"j-thomas-burch-pleads-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72965","title":{"rendered":"J Thomas Burch pleads guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=65897\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65897\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/J-THOMAS-BURCH-PHOTO-4a-289x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-65897\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/J-THOMAS-BURCH-PHOTO-4a-289x300.jpg 289w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/J-THOMAS-BURCH-PHOTO-4a.jpg 314w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65892\">John Thomas Burch<\/a> about a year ago when he was busted for pretending to be a Special Forces officer who had been in Vietnam. He was actually a JAG officer for the special forces unit in Vietnam and never so much as attended the Army&#8217;s Basic Airborne Course, let alone received any special forces training. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72497\">Earlier this month<\/a>, he was charged with using his charity, the National Vietnam Veterans Foundation, as his personal ATM machine.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Tango sends us a link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/public-safety\/head-of-vietnam-veteran-charity-pleads-guilty-to-embezzling-150000\/2017\/06\/21\/146db4c4-56ca-11e7-9fb4-fa6b3df7bb8a_story.html?utm_term=.ab78ff944ed3\">Washington Post<\/a> which reports he pleaded guilty;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The former head of D.C. charity meant to benefit Vietnam veterans pleaded guilty to wire fraud after embezzling about $150,000, federal prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Burch faces up to 18 months in prison, prosecutors said, and a fine of up to $55,000, among other penalties. He is scheduled to be sentenced in October. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65822\">He raised millions of dollar<\/a>, spending pennies on veterans &#8211; all while working as a lawyer for the VA. See ya!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wrote about John Thomas Burch about a year ago when he was busted for pretending &hellip; <a title=\"J Thomas Burch pleads guilty\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72965\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">J Thomas Burch pleads guilty<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-vet-charities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}